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1.
You are dangerously bad at cryptography (happybearsoftware.com)
268 points by alinajaf on May 27, 2013 | 167 comments
2.
This Is What Winning Looks Like – Afghanistan War Diary (vice.com)
254 points by yk on May 27, 2013 | 193 comments
3.
Chinese DIY Inventions (theatlantic.com)
233 points by jnazario on May 27, 2013 | 77 comments
4.
Open Source Game Clones (osgameclones.com)
219 points by piranha on May 27, 2013 | 81 comments
5.
Google blimps will carry wireless signal across Africa (wired.co.uk)
204 points by richeyrw on May 27, 2013 | 115 comments
6.
Sucks to be an old engineer (lionoftheblogosphere.wordpress.com)
193 points by ekm2 on May 27, 2013 | 236 comments
7.
Google Java Annotations Gallery (code.google.com)
163 points by javinpaul on May 27, 2013 | 29 comments
8.
Ask HN: What Freelancer site do you recommend?
152 points by 10dpd on May 27, 2013 | 132 comments
9.
Is Silicon Valley only interested in the problems of twentysomethings? (washingtonpost.com)
151 points by sethbannon on May 27, 2013 | 84 comments
10.
Indiegogo fund raises enough money to buy video of Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack (indiegogo.com)
149 points by muratmutlu on May 27, 2013 | 95 comments
11.
OAuth.io - OAuth that just works. (oauth.io)
149 points by thyb on May 27, 2013 | 50 comments
12.
The declining profitability of Google Adwords (successfulsoftware.net)
140 points by hermitcrab on May 27, 2013 | 99 comments
13.
The Skeleton Lake of Roopkund, India (atlasobscura.com)
134 points by aasarava on May 27, 2013 | 30 comments
14.
Crate.io: A new kind of Python package index (crate.io)
132 points by ak217 on May 27, 2013 | 47 comments
15.
Elsevier journals: has anything changed? (gowers.wordpress.com)
126 points by ColinWright on May 27, 2013 | 5 comments
16.
Django 1.6 alpha 1 released (djangoproject.com)
126 points by Lightning on May 27, 2013 | 35 comments
17.
37 YC Companies have valuations of or been sold for at least $40 Million (twitter.com/paulg)
122 points by mlinsey on May 27, 2013 | 65 comments
18.
Haxe 3 Released (haxe.org)
112 points by raphinou on May 27, 2013 | 34 comments
19.
Twitter API returning results that do not respect the arrow of time (quietbabylon.com)
109 points by ChrisArchitect on May 27, 2013 | 29 comments
20.
A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins (2007) (codinghorror.com)
111 points by g3rald on May 27, 2013 | 13 comments
21.
Dear WordPress (ma.tt)
111 points by muellerwolfram on May 27, 2013 | 77 comments
22.
Show HN: Got my Pebble and built a seven minute workout watchapp today (kennberg.com)
103 points by akennberg on May 27, 2013 | 30 comments
23.
List of unsolved problems in computer science (wikipedia.org)
99 points by jonbaer on May 27, 2013 | 42 comments
24.
How to eat healthily for £1 per day – version 0.2 (supplementsos.com)
98 points by lenazegher on May 27, 2013 | 81 comments
25.
BitTorrent Sync Is A Dropbox Killer, Or Maybe Much More Than That (forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy)
95 points by leonegresima on May 27, 2013 | 94 comments
26.
Researchers turn cement into metal (phys.org)
82 points by adventured on May 27, 2013 | 16 comments
27.
Exploitation of an old Rails vulnerability (gist.github.com)
81 points by boonez123 on May 27, 2013 | 49 comments
28.
Best Place To Start A Company If You Have Kids (jeffkward.com)
80 points by mjfern on May 27, 2013 | 36 comments
29.
The true power of regular expression (nikic.github.io)
77 points by RohitS5 on May 27, 2013 | 15 comments
30.
Preparing a Mac laptop for your Grandma (accursedware.com)
75 points by talos on May 27, 2013 | 66 comments

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